The Masters Tournamen has over 75 years of history. Played each year at the Augusta National Golf Club, the tournament embodies the rigor, athleticism, and beauty of golf.
The Department of Defense recently purchased and destroyed thousands of copies of an Army Reserve officer's memoir in an effort to safeguard state secrets, a spokeswoman said Saturday.
At least one example of the printed word is in great demand even in the digital age: ancient Bibles.
A collection of rare books, described by experts as the most important of its kind in Ireland outside Dublin is being taken into State care by the Office of Public Works.
An early copy of Paradise Lost could be paradise found for a John Milton enthusiast as the annual Calgary book sale has unearthed a rare copy of this epic poem. The early edition, from the 1700s, is expected to fetch several hundred dollars when it goes up for sale in a couple of weeks.
Entering new territory. Amazing. Speechless. Puzzled. The following from the Blog of the Library of Congress, i.e., it must be true ?! As this posting is being twitterized too, Library of Congress, here we come:
"The Kindle is convenient, but I don't want to read a book from a little screen," said Dennis Melhouse, owner of First Folio Rare Books in Paris, Tenn. "You're not going to get a signed copy of Leaves of Grass on the Kindle." Sure enough, Melhouse sells a copy signed by Walt Whitman. He'll sell it to you for $8,000. While his business is down 30 percent, he doesn't blame technology. It's the economy, he said.
Visit us this weekend in St. Petersburg at the 29th Florida Antiquarian Book Fair March 12, 5:30-9pm, March 13, 10am -5pm, and March 14, 11am -4pm.
Mount Vernon, George Washington's Virginia estate, has received a record gift of $38 million to construct a research library on its grounds.
